The US Senate late on Dec 15 passed by voice vote a bill to bar federal employees from using Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok on government-owned devices.
The bill must still be approved by the US House of Representatives before going to President Joe Biden for approval. The House of Representatives would need to pass the Senate bill before the current congressional session ends.
The Senate action comes after North Dakota and Iowa joined a growing number of US states in banning TikTok, owned by ByteDance, from state-owned devices amid concerns that data could be passed on to the Chinese government.
Many federal agencies including the Defense, Homeland Security and State departments already ban TikTok from government-owned devices. "TikTok is a major security risk to the United States, and it has no place on government devices," Hawley said previously.
TikTok表示，这些担忧在很大程度上是由错误信息引起的，他们很乐意与政策制定者会面来讨论公司的做法。公司还表示：“我们感到失望的是，这么多州都跳上了政治浪潮，依靠毫无根据的谎言来制定政策，这对促进美国的国家安全毫无益处。”
"We're disappointed that so many states are jumping on the political bandwagon to enact policies based on unfounded falsehoods about TikTok that will do nothing to advance the national security of the United States," the company said Wednesday.
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TikTok发言人在一份声明中说：“令人不安的是，一些国会议员不是鼓励政府完成对TikTok的国家安全审查，而是决定推动一项出于政治动机的禁令，这对促进美国的国家安全毫无益处。” 他补充说，该公司将继续向国会议员介绍“正在进行中”的计划，以“进一步保护我们在美国的平台”。
"It is troubling that rather than encouraging the administration to conclude its national security review of TikTok, some members of Congress have decided to push for a politically-motivated ban that will do nothing to advance the national security of the United States," a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement, adding that the company would continue to brief members of Congress on the plans that are "well underway" to "further secure our platform in the United States."
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